Abraham Lincoln Ladd, Williamstown, MA, b. 1862
(bonus: In 1880, Abraham Lincoln Ladd went to work as a farm hand for the Hickox family in Williamstown, MA. The family included a 14-year-old boy named Lincoln Hickox.)

Andrew Johnson Meekins, Cumberland, VA, b. 1867
(bonus: brother named Jeff Davis and Robert Lee. What inspires a black mother to name her sons Jeff Davis, Robert Lee, and Andrew Johnson in the Civil War-era South? And if she didn't choose those names, why still use them in 1870?)

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